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ADF STAFF A proposed port in Nigeria’s Rivers State is hailed as a one-of-its-kind project that will include processing facilities, warehouses and ship maintenance yards. Promoters say the $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion port will deal…

ADF STAFF In the villages known as aldeias in Mozambique’s far north province of Cabo Delgado, attacks come before dawn. Militants open fire at random and set homes ablaze. Those lucky enough to escape flee into dense forest or pile into…

ADF STAFF Mozambique has joined the growing list of African nations seeking — but rarely receiving — relief from their overwhelming debts held by Chinese lenders. “We have been working with our bilateral creditors. We are just waiting…

ADF STAFF Aimée Gbahoué affixed a water tap to the top of a recycled orange jug in the shade of her outdoor workshop in Benin. The jug sat on a base of iron rods that Gbahoué constructed by hand, heating the metal over glowing embers and…

ADF STAFF The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has delivered 14 ventilators to Kenya to help treat seriously ill COVID-19 patients. The handover to Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital in Mombasa is part of a…

ADF STAFF In the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, China took action to contain the likely source of the virus — infected wildlife meat sold in its now-infamous wet markets. On January 1, Hubei province health officials closed the…

ADF STAFF When they feel sick, many Nigerians head straight to the pharmacy. But West Africa’s long history of counterfeit medications means the help people seek may cause them harm instead. That’s where Abimbola Adebakin and her…

ADF STAFF When Dr. Abdullahi Sheikdon Dini and his partners decided to open Mogadishu’s only diagnostic laboratory, they were focused on testing for measles and other diseases. Then COVID-19 arrived. Along with four other doctors,…

ADF STAFF Malian Armed Forces drove armed extremists out of the tiny village of Farabougou, where the population had endured a two-week siege. The clash began about October 8, when terrorists kidnapped several villagers in the town of…

ADF STAFF The Nile River is essential to life for many in the 11 countries it passes through. A new dam offers a different type of prosperity for some, but it threatens regional stability. Since Ethiopia announced plans in 2011 to…